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What is Global Startup EXPO 2025

Global Startup EXPO 2025 is an international conference held in collaboration with Expo 2025 Osaka–Kansai, bringing together the world’s leading deep tech startups, investors, universities and research institutions focused on co-creation, forward-thinking corporations, and organizations supporting the startup ecosystem. The event serves as a global platform to explore solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Japan leads with one of the world’s most advanced technological foundations. Its startup ecosystem has rapidly evolved in recent years, attracting increasing global interest and investment. In particular, the deep tech sector is drawing growing international attention as a key source of innovation for addressing global challenges. The number of deep tech startups in Japan continues to rise year by year, reflecting the country's expanding role in the global innovation landscape.

The Osaka–Kansai region, the host location, is home to top-tier universities, cutting-edge research institutions, and globally competitive companies—making it an ideal hub where co-creation can thrive. With its rich industrial base and innovation-driven culture, it provides the perfect setting to accelerate collaboration and forge impactful solutions.

Shaping the Future
with Startups

ー Co-creation to Break Through Global Challenges ー

Addressing global challenges such as climate change, securing the stable supply of water and food, ensuring equitable access to healthcare, and managing sustainable resources is far too complex for anyone to solve alone.

That’s why collaboration is the key to shaping the future.

When technology, passion, and trust come together, new breakthroughs in solving social issues become possible. And it all begins—right here.

Theme

Co-living with the Earth
A Society Independent
from Population Growth
Enriched Life
Health and Longevity
Creating Regulatory Frameworks
for Emerging Technologies

Participants

Meet the leading deep tech innovators and key ecosystem players from around the world.

Logomark

This logo embodies our aspirations for the future and reflects a spirit deeply rooted in Japanese culture. Its central motif is inspired by mizuhiki—a traditional Japanese decorative cord that symbolizes the act of tying bonds between humans. In Japanese culture, mizuhiki signifies not only the creation of new connections, but also the strengthening of relationships through knots that are not easily undone.

The overall design is based on the form of mizuhiki and is crafted so that the letters “GSE”— representing the initials of Global Startup EXPO — can be recognized within it.

The logo expresses the gathering of startups, corporations, investors, and others who seek to shape the future, uniting their technologies, passions, and trust. Through these strengthened bonds, we can pave new paths toward a better future.